What does “spiritual” mean to you?

I've always considered "spiritual" to be something of a nonsense word. There seems to be no common definition of it, and it's my experience that those who talk about it are all talking about subtly different things, or sometimes wildly different things.

The best I can come up with is that "spiritual" refers to a form of existence that is neither matter, nor energy, nor anything emerging from them. A form of existence which, alas, there is no evidence for the existence of.


Although that's kind of spoiled by the fact that many people will claim that the spirit world does indeed have energy, for instance. Only they don't seem to be talking about anything that I understand by that word, since "energy" is "the potential to do work". And many people will claim that elements of the spirit world can interact with matter... but only sometimes, and in ill-defined ways.

At about this time I just shrug, conclude that we're talking about something that means both everything and nothing, and walk away.

A word Goths use to describe drinking weak lager and cider while hanging round graveyards.

Knowledge can never be dangerous in and of itself, butt yes it does depend how you use it.  Yes, meaning in life is THE most personal of things, as are the concepts of wisdom and purpose.   Awareness is just being conscious.  It is how you perceive your awareness in context with your environment that is the important thing.

In what way does potential energy even exist?  I don't think the answer to that is at all clear.

I don't know what any of that means.

1) What is all resonance?
2) The wood on the stairs has a resonant frequency, yes. Is that what you mean? Gravitational potential energy does not have a resonance as it is not a physical object.
3) There are more than 5 elements. There are, that we know of, 92 naturally occurring ones and 20 or 30 artificial ones.
4) Stillness and movement are different degrees of the same thing.
5) What is an "internal world"?

...and none of that explains in what way the gravitational potential energy of my body is "vibration".

I don't know what this means.

I don't know what this means.

I don't know that this means.

X exists = x is instantiated, x obtains, x occurs, x is present, etc. Or in relation to concepts, the concept of x picks out something in the external world.

Re it being a model, we could just as well say that God is an explanatory model. Does God exist, though, or is it just a convenient fiction, a placeholder for something else that will eventually supplant it as a better, more accurate explanation (that does pick out something that obtains externally)?

I hope you do.

Uh huh.

As I said originally - people who talk about "spirituality" often refer to "energy", but they seem to mean something very different from "the potential to do work", which is what I was taught that word means.

It's not limited to spirituality, though. A lot of people use "energy" in strange ways that seem, to me, to indicate that they don't actually know what it means.